ASP redirects

Affiliate links being indexed

[Munster]

I have a query regarding asp. we are finding more and more affiliate links appearing in Google. This is particularly annoying for us as once we have optimised a clients page the affiliate link url often scores a higher ranking for the optimisation that we have carried out on the main url, just by using an asp redirect. This results in our client paying for Google traffic through the high ranking affiliate link. Moreover it means that the content is duplicated in Google which could mean that our optimised page gets excluded from the SERPS.

Has anyone else had this happen? Can anyone offer a solution?

Munst

[Munster]

Anyone at all?

[jcoronella]

Your affiliate is being ranked off of your on-page efforts, but because their ASP page redirects with a 303 and has higher PR it wins.

One solution would be to have your affiliates link to a page that is not SEO'd. They can still make a page themselves that has good optimization, but at that point you can dictate that they can't, for example, use your brand in the title of the page etc.

Another solution would be to get your own page's PR up.